The Links Hardcover

India

Robert Hunter

Hunter's 'The Links' is a highly collectable classic, and the cornerstone of any golf architecture library. This exact reprint- complete with its very, very rare dustjacket- outlines the principles of golf course design from the Golden Age, when many of our most treasured courses were built, and committed to legend. Vintage photographs, sketches, and illustrations abound, along with Hunter's insightful commentary. Original copies are extremely expensive and often in poor condition.

1886947511

9781886947511

English

Sleeping Bear Press,U.S.

29 Mar 1999

196

Robert Hunter?was a great intellect from a Midwest family, but neither a golf course architect nor a golfing professional. So while he is the most unlikely author of this book, it is considered by many golf course designers as the "Bible" of the trade. Hunter was best known as a socialist reformer, especially in Chicago and New York. His understanding of golf was the product of a six-month trip to Great Britain, where he toured courses using his great mind to gain understanding of the relationship between the playing surface and the game. He concluded that the diversity of golf's terrain is what made the game so difficult and enjoyable. He set down his new knowledge on course architecture in this most valuable text.

A. MACKENZIE, author of Golf Architecture, and the designer of over five hundred golf courses in the British islands, writes: "I have read The Links with the greatest interest. Mr. Hunter is familiar with all the great courses in the world and he has written a most entertaining book, which I am sure every golfer will read with profit. I do not hesitate to say that it is the classic of the subject."